Usain Bolt's triple-triple a fitting end to a prolific Olympic career
RIO DE JANIERO -- In 2004, a skinny, teenaged Usain Bolt traveled to Athens to run in his first Olympics. He flamed out in the first heat of the 200 meters, aggravated an ankle injury, and immediately flew back home. Who could have known what lay ahead? Even after the 2008 Olympics, when Bolt smashed the 100-meter world record with such exuberant style he was chastised for not running faster, no one imagined an ending like this.Not even Bolt himself."Not even close," he said Friday after anchori..>> view originalKlay Thompson leads way as US advances to gold-medal game
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Gone was the all-offense, all-action play that turned the last two gold-medal games into classics.To get by Spain again, the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team would have to win ugly, so unusual it's practically un-American."It was just a real different game today,'' coach Mike Krzyzewski said.Same result, though.The U.S. advanced to its third straight gold-medal game win an 82-76 victory Friday, another tight matchup between the teams that met in the last two championship game..>> view originalUS women fastest in relay with fifth gold for Felix
US women fastest in relay with fifth gold for Felix Allyson Felix became the first woman to collect five athletics gold medals as defending champions the United States won the women’s 4x100m relay.The US team of Tianna Bartoletta, Felix, English Gardner and Tori Bowie clocked 41.01 seconds, the second-fastest time ever after their world record set in London four years ago, to beat Jamaica on 41.36 and Great Britain on 41.77. They sailed through in the final despite the disadvantage of racing in..>> view originalUFC 202: Nate Diaz vs Conor McGregor Toe to Toe Preview - Complete Breakdown
Nate Diaz tries to ambush Conor McGregor yet again in this highly anticipated rematch. Conor McGregor fights Nate Diaz at welterweight in the main event of UFC 202: McGregor vs. Diaz II on August 20th, 2016, at the Single sentence summary: Phil: McGregor takes another shot at his white whale and tries not to get dragged back down into the depths. David: Nate looks to take another shot at roping the dope wrapped in the same Irish zig zags he rolled him in. Stats? Record: Nate Diaz 19-10 Cono..>> view originalWhat we learned: Prescott outshines Romo's return
Tony Romo was relegated to an afterthought in his first game back from a broken collarbone. That's the power of Dakmania. Cowboys backup Dak Prescott lit up the Miami Dolphins' secondary Friday night just like he did against the Los Angeles Rams last week. The rookie fourth-rounder showed off his full arsenal with back-shoulder throws, a long touchdown pass to Dez Bryant and a gorgeous rainmaker to Brice Butler that traveled more than 60 yards. Oh, and he also rushed for 28 yards and two sc..>> view originalWhy did Jimmy Vesey take the New York Rangers' free agent pitch?
College free agent forward Jimmy Vesey tried not to pay attention to New York Rangers’ celebrity fans as they took to Twitter in droves to try to convince him to play for their team.Eventually Vesey’s friends got ahold of him to inform the Harvard grad that New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard, actor Jerry Ferrara and local radio host and former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason had sent their Rangers’ pitches into cyberspace.There was even a rumor that actor Liam Neeson shot a video, using a lin..>> view originalUS protesting DQ of men's 4x100 relay team
USA Track & Field has filed an appeal after the men's 4x100-meter relay team was disqualified from Friday night's final at the Rio Olympics.Editor's PicksThe U.S. finished the race third but was disqualified because leadoff runner Mike Rodgers was ruled to have passed the baton to Justin Gatlin outside the first exchange zone of the relay, won by Usain Bolt and Jamaica. The disqualification elevated Canada to the bronze. Japan won the silver.Video replays show a clean handoff from Rodgers to Gat..>> view originalNeid goes out with gold as Germany defeats Sweden 2-1
AP 8:15 a.m. EDT August 20, 2016(Photo: The Associated Press)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With her arms raised in victory, coach Silvia Neid ran onto the field to join the celebration of Germany's first Olympic gold medal — even jumping onto the players' dogpile.What a way to go out.Dzsenifer Marozsan scored early in the second half Friday and Germany went on to give Neid a 2-1 victory over Sweden for the nation's first Olympic title in women's soccer.Neid, a two-time FIFA Women's Coach of..>> view originalAfter apology, questions about future loom for swimmer Ryan Lochte
U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologized Friday for his behavior surrounding an incident at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, saying he should have been more "careful and candid" about how he described what happened after a night of partying with his teammates.But he didn't explain why he embellished details of an encounter with armed security guards and called it a robbery, and why he omitted to say that he and three teammates had vandalized a gas station restroom. "Regardless of the behavior o..>> view original
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